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kudos

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English

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WOTD – 17 March 2008

Etymology

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FromAncient Greekκῦδος(kûdos,“praise, renown”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kudos (uncountable)

  1. Praise;accolades.
    The talented, young playwright received muchkudos for his new drama.
    I gave Chelsea muchkudos for the birth of her first daughter.
    • 1920, Agatha Christie,The Mysterious Affair at Styles:
      Well, I will tell you this. Use your warrant: Arrest Mr. Inglethorp. But it will bring you nokudos—the case against him will be dismissed at once!
    • 2011Allen Gregory, "1 Night in Gottlieb" (season 1, episode 2):
      Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Pat, I gotta tell you, you did a lot of things right with this lunch―kudos. You got back quickly, you showed initiative, and, best of all, you left plenty of room for improvement.
    • 2014,Tim Carvell [et al.], “The Lottery”, inLast Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode24,John Oliver (actor),Warner Bros. Television, viaHBO:
      And… and to that… to that Turkish horse, I say this, “You should not step on people’s balls, but, in this solitary instance,kudos, horse,kudos.”
  2. Credit for one's achievements.
    • 1963,Margery Allingham, chapter 19, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:
      Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for anykudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.

Usage notes

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  • The nounkudos was originally amass noun, but in American English is now sometimes treated as a plural noun, either as aplurale tantum, or as the plural of a new nounkudo, contrary to the original Greekκῦδος(kûdos), which is a singular noun. The American pronunciation implies this plural usage, which many authorities nevertheless consider erroneous.
  • The interjection is related to the noun sense through the idea of "giving kudos to someone", similar to how the interjectionthanks relates to the idea of "giving thanks to someone".

Translations

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praise, accolades
credit for one's achievements

Interjection

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kudos

  1. An interjection indicatingpraise orapproval or as an acknowledgement of alaudableachievement.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:well done

Translations

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Translations

Verb

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kudos (third-person singular simple presentkudoses,present participlekudosing,simple past and past participlekudosed)

  1. (informal) To givepraise oraccolades.
    • 2018, Margaret Edds,We Face the Dawn:
      You know and I know that Dr. Tinsley likes a bit ofkudosing every now and then. I think it would be well if we seriously considered some kind of honorable mention for him at the Conference.

Noun

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kudos

  1. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed)plural ofkudo

Verb

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kudos

  1. (nonstandard, informal, sometimes proscribed)third-personsingularsimplepresentindicative ofkudo

Finnish

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Etymology

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kutoa(“to weave”) +‎-os.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkudos/,[ˈkudo̞s̠]
  • Rhymes:-udos
  • Syllabification(key):ku‧dos
  • Hyphenation(key):ku‧dos

Noun

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kudos

  1. (textiles)fabric,texture(texture of a cloth)
  2. fabric(framework underlying a structure)
    Synonym:rakenne
    maailmankaikkeudenkudos ―thefabric of the universe
  3. (art)texture(quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts)
    Synonym:rakenne
    sävellyksen polyfoninenkudos ―the polyphonictexture of the composition
  4. (anatomy, zoology)tissue(in humans and animals, group of similar cells that function together to do a specific job)
    Near-synonym:solukko(in plants or fungi)

Declension

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Inflection ofkudos (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominativekudoskudokset
genitivekudoksenkudosten
kudoksien
partitivekudostakudoksia
illativekudokseenkudoksiin
singularplural
nominativekudoskudokset
accusativenom.kudoskudokset
gen.kudoksen
genitivekudoksenkudosten
kudoksien
partitivekudostakudoksia
inessivekudoksessakudoksissa
elativekudoksestakudoksista
illativekudokseenkudoksiin
adessivekudoksellakudoksilla
ablativekudokseltakudoksilta
allativekudoksellekudoksille
essivekudoksenakudoksina
translativekudokseksikudoksiksi
abessivekudoksettakudoksitta
instructive—kudoksin
comitativeSee the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms ofkudos(Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)

Derived terms

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